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Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans,
are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.  To men, life
without veal stock, port fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace or even
stinky cheese is a life not worth living.  Vegetarians are the enemy
of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I
stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.  The body, these waterheads
imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein.
It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've work
with is brought down by any rumor of a cold.  Oh, I'll
accommodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed
them, for a "vegetarian plate" if called on to do so.  Fourteen
dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my
food cost fine.
		-- Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen
		   Confidential, p. 70

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